Bernard Avishai on TPM: OBAMA, PRESUMABLY, WILL be too polite to ask Netanyahu: “What kind of Jewish state?” But perhaps his people could later put the question to Uzi Arad, the other Israeli official in the room, [who has an…
Michael Wolff tells a weird story about American Apparel boss, Dov Charney: Dov Charney has used a photographic approach that might be characterized as underage retro porn as American Apparel’s branding theme. Charney, who often takes the pictures himself, recently…
Missed this one. A month ago, Mother Jones reported something I’ve always heard talk about, that Tom Friedman is married into one of the richest families in America, the shopping-mall Bucksbaums, whose company has taken a huge hit in the…
Missed this one. A month ago, Mother Jones reported something I’ve always heard talk about, that Tom Friedman is married into one of the richest families in America, the shopping-mall Bucksbaums, whose company has taken a huge hit in the…
Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…
Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…
Last night I posted an LA Times piece called “What Is Anti-Semitism?” that accepts a Daniel Jonah Goldhagen test of anti-Semitism: Does the speaker harp on Israel’s faults and not consider other countries’ faults? (I wonder if Goldhagen even thinks…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…